- Producers of a documentary in Malaysia held a silent protest today to highlight media censorship. They read newspapers upside down while they marched through Kuala Lumpur.
- Lecturers and Muslim students at northern Iraq’s Mosul University staged a sit-in on Friday to protest deadly attacks against Christian students.
- On Saturday a spirited protest action was held in front of the Department of Labor, in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to demand the creation of a federally-mandated public jobs program, similar to the WPA, which was launched by FDR’s administration back in the middle of the Great Depression.
- Thousands of people protested in Taipei on Saturday to call for the release of former president Chen Shui-bian and to support the Taiwanese independence movement.
- Several hundred people gathered in London on Saturday to call for electoral reform. They wore purple and chanted “Fair votes now!”
- A state senator is walking across Michigan to call attention to and protest child abuse.
- Tucson high school students protested a proposed bill that would ban ethnic studies programs in Arizona.
- Plus-size models protested outside the Australian Fashion Week last week after they were excluded from the show.
